Wednesday, 29 January 2014

A new study adds to growing evidence that
nuts – once considered too fattening to be healthy – may, in fact, help keep
weight down, on top of offering other health benefits.

Researchers found that study participants
who ate the most tree nuts – such as almonds, Brazil nuts, pistachios and
walnuts – were between 37 and 46 per cent less likely to be obese than those
who ate the fewest tree nuts.

People who ate the most nuts were also
less likely to have metabolic syndrome, which is defined as having three or
more conditions associated with heart disease and diabetes risk.

The study, which was published online in
Plos One, was partially funded by a grant from the International Tree Nut
Council Nutrition Research and Education Foundation.

In another recent study that the
foundation also funded, researchers found that people who reported eating the
most nuts were less likely to die over a 24-year period than those who ate the
fewest nuts.

While such evidence cannot show that nuts
cause the differences seen between people who love them and those who do not,
there are reasons to believe nuts provide a direct benefit, said Dr Joan
Sabate, the new study’s senior author from Loma Lind University in California
in the United States.

For example, nuts are high in unsaturated
fat, which is known as ‘good’ fat, rather than the ‘bad’ saturated fat in
animal products. The high protein content of nuts may also lead people to feel
fuller and eat less unhealthy food. Nuts also contain a host of other nutrients
and beneficial plant chemicals.

For the study, the researchers used data
on the diets of 803 men and women in the United States who were already
enrolled in another study. Overall, those who ate a lot of tree nuts – about
16g per day – were just a little over normal weight, on average compared with
those who ate few or no nuts and were seriously overweight or obese.

A normal body mass index (BMI) – a measure
of weight in relation to height – for an adult falls between 18.5 and 24.9.
Overweight people have a BMI of between 25 and 29.9 and a BMI of 30 or more is
considered obese.

Participants who ate the most nuts have an
average BMI of about 27 while those who ate the least – less than 5g of tree
nuts per day – had an average BMI of 29 to 30.

The researchers also found that a third of
the participants had metabolic syndrome.

For every one-ounce serving of tree nuts
consumed per week, however, a person’s risk of having metabolic syndrome
dropped by 7 per cent.

Monday, 27 January 2014

A paraprosdokian (from Greek,
meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech
in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in
a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first
part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes
producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among
comedians and satirists.

Some
paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play
on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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* * *

I don’t mind arguing with myself.
It’s when I lose that it bothers me. - Richard
Powers

I drink to make other people look
more interesting. - Unknown

I feel so
miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here. - Stephen Bishop

I found a concert ticket nailed to a tree, so I took it. You never know
when you might need a nail. - Unknown

I hate two faced people, it makes
it harder for me to decide which side to slap first. - Unknown

I hate
writing, I love having written. - Dorothy
Parker

I have always believed that
writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The
first, of course, is ransom notes... - Philip
Dusenberry

I haven't spoken to my wife in
years. I didn't want to interrupt her. - Rodney
Dangerfield

I like long
walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. - Fred Allen

I like work: it
fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome Klapka Jerome

I love rumours. I always find out
amazing things about myself that I never knew. - Unknown

I make it a policy to try never to
make a complete idiot of myself twice in the same way. After all, there’s
always all kinds of new ways to make a complete idiot of myself. Why repeat the
old ones? - Margot Dalton

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Reveal not every secret you have
to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an
enemy. And bring not all the mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may
one day become your friend. - Saadi

When you get into a tight place
and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on
a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that
the tide will turn. - Unknown

When you
feel as if you are going to scream, take a few moments to get away from it all
if you can. Breathe deeply, try to see things in perspective, and come out and
face the world again when you are ready. - Unknown

The general who advances without
coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to
protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the
kingdom. - Sun
Tzu

All the good
things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of
all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more. -Daniel Defoe

Apologizing does
not always mean that you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means
that you value your relationship more than your ego.- Unknown

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Looking for
a quote on a particular subject? I have categorized the quotes to make the
search easier This 'label' - ZQuotesT -
has all the quotes on subjects beginning with the Alphabet T. You might want to
search the labels on the right hand side of the page too.

Tact

People with tact
have less to retract. - Arnold Glasgow

Tact in audacity is knowing how
far you can go without going too far. - Jean Cocteau

Tact is one of the first mental
virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents. - William
Gillmore Simms

People who eat avocado with their lunch
are less likely to snack in the afternoon as the fruit increases feelings of
fullness

Want to banish unhealthy snacking between
meals? Then add an avocado to your lunch.

Eating half an avocado at lunchtime can
boost feelings of fullness and reduce the temptation to snack between meals,
experts claim.

Their study compared the effects of
incorporating a fresh avocado into a lunch with the effects of eating a
standard lunch.

They aimed to determine how avocado
consumption would influence satiety, blood sugar, insulin response and
snacking.

The researchers studied 26 healthy but
overweight adults.

They found that participants who added
half a fresh avocado to their lunch reported 40 per cent decreased desire to
eat in the following three hours as well as a 28 per cent reduced desire to eat
over the subsequent five hours.

In addition, they reported increased
feelings of satisfaction over the three hours following the meal.

Study leader, Dr Joan Sabate, a
nutritionist from Loma Linda University, in California, said: ‘Satiety is an
important factor in weight management, because people who feel satisfied are
less likely to snack between meals.

‘We noted that though adding avocados
increased participants' calorie and carbohydrate intake at lunch, there was no
increase in blood sugar levels beyond what was observed after eating the
standard lunch.

‘This leads us to believe that avocados’
potential role in blood sugar management is worth further investigation.’

She said that while the findings were
generally positive, more research is needed to determine whether the
conclusions drawn from this study can be applied to the general public.

However, the results do provide promising
clues and a basis for future research to determine avocados' effect on satiety,
glucose and insulin response.

Half of a fresh avocado contains about 150
calories and is also high in fibre. However, it is high in fat.

Monday, 20 January 2014

A paraprosdokian (from Greek,
meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech
in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in
a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first
part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes
producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among
comedians and satirists.

Some
paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play
on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

Thursday, 16 January 2014

A great deal of talent is lost to
the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure
men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. - Sydney Smith

All of us do not
have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop
our talents. - John F Kennedy

At the core of
every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any
achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something
worthwhile will be realized. - Eric Hoffer

But talent – if you don’t encourage it,
if you don’t train it, it dies. It might run wild for a little while, but it
will never mean anything. Like a wild horse. If you don’t tame it and teach it
to run on track, to pace itself and bear a rider, it doesn’t matter how fast it
is. It’s useless. - Elizabeth Hand

Concealed talent brings no
reputation. - Desiderius Erasmus

Everyone has a
talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place
where it leads. - Erica Jong

Hide not your
talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the
shade. - Ben Franklin

I have
no special talents. I am only passionately curious. - Albert Einstein

If a man has talent and cannot use
it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly
failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has
gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. - Thomas
Wolfe

If we have a
talent and cannot use it, we have failed. If we have a talent and use only half
of it, we have partly failed. If we have a talent and learn somehow to
use all of it, we have gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a
triumph few individuals ever know. - Thomas Wolfe

More men fail through lack of
purpose than lack of talent. - Billy Sunday

Never desert your own line of
talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Each of us has
some unique capabilities waiting for realization. - Sydney
Smith

Not all of us have to possess
earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do. - Myrtle Auvil

Sometimes,
indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been
better. - Carl Jung

Talent is cheaper than table salt.
What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard
work. - Stephen King

The luck of
having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. - Hector
Berlioz

The man who was born with a talent which he was meant
to use finds his greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

The more talents you have, the
greater is your responsibility to use them for your own benefit and those of
mankind. - Unknown

The most eminent authority does
not always have the right answer. No matter what the source of discouraging
advice, pay no attention to it until you have given your talent a fair trial. -
Henry N. Gerguson

The
most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas
Jeffeson

The real tragedy of
life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent. - Edgar
W. Work

The talent of success is nothing
more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without
thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not
because it is sought after. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

There is no such thing as a great
talent without great willpower. - Unknown

Use what talents you possess: the
woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Henry Van Dyke

We are told that talent creates
its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not
only its own opportunities but also its own talents. - Unknown

When you are able to set free the
talents in others, you automatically set free some of your own in the process. -
Unknown

With ordinary talent and
extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. - Unknown

Work
while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been
entrusted to you. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Reading a gripping novel causes biological
changes in the brain which last for days as the mind is transported into the
body of the protagonist

Being pulled into the world of a gripping novel
can trigger actual, measurable changes in the brain that linger for at least
five days after reading, scientists have said.

The new research, carried out at Emory
University in the US, found that reading a good book may cause heightened
connectivity in the brain and neurological changes that persist in a similar
way to muscle memory.

The changes were registered in the left temporal
cortex, an area of the brain associated with receptivity for language, as well
as the the primary sensory motor region of the brain.

Neurons of this region have been associated with
tricking the mind into thinking it is doing something it is not, a phenomenon
known as grounded cognition - for example, just thinking about running, can
activate the neurons associated with the physical act of running.

“The neural changes that we found associated
with physical sensation and movement systems suggest that reading a novel can
transport you into the body of the protagonist,” said neuroscientist Professor
Gregory Berns, lead author of the study.

“We already knew that good stories can put you
in someone else’s shoes in a figurative sense. Now we’re seeing that something
may also be happening biologically.”

21 students took part in the study, with all
participants reading the same book - Pompeii, a 2003 thriller by
Robert Harris, which was chosen for its page turning plot.

“The story follows a protagonist, who is outside
the city of Pompeii and notices steam and strange things happening around the
volcano,” said Prof Berns. “It depicts true events in a fictional and dramatic
way. It was important to us that the book had a strong narrative line.”

Over 19 days the students read a portion of the
book in the evening then had fMRI scans the following morning. Once the book
was finished, their brains were scanned for five days after.

The neurological changes were found to have
continued for all the five days after finishing, proving that the impact was
not just an immediate reaction but has a lasting influence.

“Even though the participants were not actually
reading the novel while they were in the scanner, they retained this heightened
connectivity,” added Prof Berns. “We call that a ‘shadow activity,’ almost like
a muscle memory.”

Monday, 13 January 2014

A paraprosdokian (from Greek,
meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech
in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in
a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first
part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes
producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among
comedians and satirists.

Some
paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play
on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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A conclusion is the place where you got
tired of thinking. - Unknown

A signature
always reveals a man’s character - and sometimes even his name. - Evan Esar

A woman’s mind is cleaner than a
man’s: She changes it more often. - Oliver
Herford

Always listen to
experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done, and why. Then do it. - Robert
Heinlein

Always remember that you are
absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. - Margaret Mead

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. - Unknown

As a young child my mother told me
I can be anyone I want to be. Turns out this is called identity theft. - Unknown

Change
is inevitable, except from a vending machine. - Unknown

Children really brighten up a
household. They never turn the lights off. - Ralph Bus

Clothes make the man. Naked people
have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

Come live in my heart, and pay no
rent. - Samuel Lover

Common sense is not a gift, it is
a punishment. Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it. - Unknown

Death is caused by swallowing
small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - George Carlin

Diplomacy is saying ‘nice doggy’... until you find a rock. - Unknown

Don’t be so serious, if you can‘t
laugh at yourself, call me …. I’ll laugh at you! - Unknown

Sunday, 12 January 2014

If we could look
into each other’s hearts and understand
the unique challenges each of us face, I think we would treat each other much
more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance, and care. -Marvin
J. Ashton

The man who
follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks
alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-Pitt

Prepare yourself
in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your
experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
-Mario Andretti

Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it. -Albert
Schweitzer

‘No venture, no gain,’ is not asking you to recklessly take on any
venture. It means you have to take some risks in life if you wish to gain
something out of it. - Unknown

You have the choice to be one of
two types of people – one who brings happiness whenever he comes, or one who
brings happiness whenever he goes. - Unknown

Saturday, 11 January 2014

'Tis sometimes the height of
wisdom to feign stupidity. - Cato The Elder

'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. - Alfred Tennyson

’Tis the part of
a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in
one basket. - Miguel de Cervantes

A grain of gold
will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. -Henry David Thoreau

A little nonsense now
and then, is cherished by the wisest men. - Willy Wonka

A man is wise
with the wisdom of histimeonly, andignorantwith its ignorance. Observe how the
greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. -Henry David Thoreau

A man may learn wisdom even from a
foe. -Aristophanes

A man remains ignorant because he loves
ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves
wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. - James Allen

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his
worst enemy. - Sir William Temple

A physician is not angry at the
intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man
in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his
patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. - Seneca

A prudent question is one-half of
wisdom. - Francis Bacon

A simple realization that there are other
points of view is the beginning of wisdom. - Grenville Kleiser

A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence. - David Hume

A wise man blows off the
impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver one by
one, little by little and from time to time. - Unknown

A wise man can learn more from a
foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. - Unknown

A wise man cares
not what he can have, but what he can achieve. - Unknown

A wise man fights to
win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat. - Louis L'Amour

A wise man is
content with his lot, whatever it be – without wishing for what he has not. -Seneca

A wise man is superior to any
insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behaviour is
patience and moderation. - Molière

A wise man knows that no success
or failure is necessarily final. Hence he cares more about living than about
winning. - Unknown

A wise man learns from others’
mistakes, to make fewer of his own. - Unknown

A wise man will make more
opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon

A wise person knows that there is something to be learned from
everyone. -Unknown

A word to the wise is enough. - Titus Maccius Plautus

A word to the wise isn't as good as a word
from the wise. - Grenville Kleiser

All wisdom consists in this, not to think
that we know what we do not know. - Houng-Wou

Along withsuccesscomes a reputation for wisdom. -Euripides

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or
no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can
be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with
discriminations, with proportion. - Horace
Mann

At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge.
Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal
with that knowledge? - Jonas Salk

At times it is folly to hasten. At
other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. - Ovid

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser
than all others; it is a fatal but common error. - Charles Caleb Colton

Be wise before the storm. - Edward Counsel

Be wise with
speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. - Edward Young

Be wiser than other people if you
can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

Being Wise and
Being Smart are two different things anyone can be smart but those who master
the art of knowing what to overlook in this journey called life deserves to be
called Wise. - Abhishek Shukla

Besides the noble art of getting
things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of
life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. - Unknown

Better
be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which
is the bitterest. - Confucius

Cleverness is
not wisdom. -Euripides

Concentrate your energies, your
thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and
watches the basket. - Andrew Carnegie

Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead –
wisdom, fifty miles in advance. - Charles
William Day

Each of us knows all. We need only open our
minds to hear our own wisdom. - Dan Brown

Each step, each strain of the eye opens out a
new horizon; and every day throws in our way something new, to grow more wise
on. - Robert Leighton

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always
luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. - Hosea Ballou

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men
listen. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

From
the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus

Full of wisdom are the ordinations
of fate. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious - Chuang Tzu

He's a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom. -
Benjamin Franklin

He is a wise man
who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those
which he has. - Epicurus

He is great who can do what he
wishes; he is wise who wishes to do what he can. - Unknown

He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is
readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. - Benjamin Whichcote

He that thinks himself the wisest, is
generally the greatest fool. – Charles
Caleb Colton

He who thinks
himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool. - Voltaire

He who understands the wise is wise already.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Honestyis the first chapter of the book of
wisdom. -Thomas Jefferson

How much better to get wisdom than gold, to
get insight rather than silver! Bible,
Proverbs 16:16

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the
wise! - Homer

I believe that
all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring
a straw about the rest. -John
Buchan

If thefoolwouldpersistin his folly he would become wise. -William Blake

If we drink from the fountain of wisdom, we
thirst for its waters e'ermore. - Ardelia
Cotton Barton

If you realize
that you aren’t as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you’re wiser
today. - Unknown

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom;
but he who reflects not, never reaps. - Edward
Young

Is there anyone
so wise as to learn by the experience of others? - Voltaire

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to
seem foolish. - Aeschylus

It is almost everywhere the case that soon
after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in
repositories. - Georg Christoph
LichtenbergIt is best to
learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin ProverbIt is easier to
be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La RochefoucauldIt is not wise
to bewiserthan isnecessary. -Philippe Quinault

It is often wise to reveal that
which cannot be concealed for long. - Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

It is unwise to
be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we
execute it. - Plautus

It requires wisdom to understand
wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann

Practical wisdom is only to be
learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far
as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature
of theory only. - Samuel Smiles

Second thoughts are ever wiser. - Euripides

Somewhere beneath the rubble of
every endeavour gone awry are the tiny seeds of wisdom. Dig for and plant the
seeds, and a forest of mighty trees will grow to shade you from the scorching
heat of your life’s midday, and to shield you from the howling winds of the
world’s confusion. - Unknown

That is true wisdom, to know how
to alter one’s mind when occasion demands it. - Terence

That man is wisest
who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless. - Plato

The
art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James

The beginning of
wisdom is silence. The second step is listening. - Unknown

The beginning of wisdom is to call
things by their rightful names. - Thomas Jeffeson

The clearest
sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. - Michel Montaigne

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you
realize how foolish you’ve been. - Evan
Esar

The doors of
wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of
wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. - Benjamin Franklin

The extreme limit of wisdom – that's what the
public calls madness. - Jean Cocteau

The first point of wisdom is to discern what
is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

The first principle of solid wisdom is
discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. - Norman MacDonald

The growth of
wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill-temper. - Friedrich
Nietzsche

The knowledge and experience which produce
wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own
free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking
effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown.
- Samuel Smiles

The latter part of a wise person’s
life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they
contracted earlier. - Jonathan Swift

The mark of wisdom lies, more than anything
else, in the ability to listen. - Buddhist Quote

The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom
spun too fine. - Benjamin Franklin

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is
to profit by that of others. - Charles
Caleb Colton

The principle of Yin and Yang
dictates that there are always two sides to a story and two different ways of
seeing a situation. The wise see both and can differentiate what is right. - Unknown

The sum of
wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work. - Ralph
Waldo Emerson

The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they
leave. - John Boyle O’Reilly

The
wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - Dean Inge

The wise always mix with people
who can inspire them to greater heights. - Unknown

The wise form right judgment of the present
from what is past. - Sophocles

The wise man is wise in vain who cannot be
wise to his own advantage. - Ennius

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear. - Samuel Smiles

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. - Unknown

The
wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. - Claude Levi-Strauss

The wise man
guards against the future as if it were the present. - Publilius Syrus

The wise man has his follies, no less than
the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference – the follies of
the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the
wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. - Charles Caleb Colton

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head;
the fool, on his tongue. - Ivan Panin

The wise man is he who knows the
relative value of things. - William Ralph Inge

The wise man never changes in face
of happiness or sorrow, even as a mountain shakes not, being blown against by
fierce gusts of wind. - Unknown

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms
in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. - John Godfrey Saxe

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity. - Walter Lippmann

The wisest man is he who does not require advice. - Edward Counsel

The wisest man
is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

There are many gates to the house of wisdom.
- Edward Counsel

There is a wisdom of the head, and
a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens

There is as much
wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are
not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to
submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself. - Magdeleine
Sable

There is deep wisdom within our
very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. - Elizabeth A.
Behnke

There is no man ... however wise, who has not
at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which
is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not
entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a
wise man – so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise – unless he has
passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that
ultimate stage must be preceded. - Marcel
Proust

There is nothing
the wise man does reluctantly. -Seneca

They would need to be already
wise, in order to love wisdom. - Johann Friedrich
Von Schiller

Things
have their seasons, and even certain kinds of eminence go in and out of style.
But wisdom has an advantage: She is eternal. - Balthasar Gracian

Thinking well is
wise; planning well, wiser; but doing well is the wisest and best of all. - Unknown

Those who wish to appear wise
among fools, among the wise seem foolish. - Quintilian

To finish the moment, to find the
journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good
hours, is wisdom. - Unknown

To understand the actual world as it is, not
as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

To understand
yourself is the key to wisdom. - Confucius

True wisdom come to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. - Socrates

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know. -
Conficius

True wisdom lies
in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by. - E. S. Bouton

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the
great advantage of wisdom – to know what is known and what is unknown to us? - Plato

We are not provided with wisdom, we must
discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one
else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us. - Proust

We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to
support it with folly. - Edward Counsel

We must attain wisdom as we go upstairs, one
step at a time. - Tske-Kung

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned
acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. - Sri Aurobindo

When people grow wise in one direction, they
are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as
well. - Issaac Asimov

When skies darken and clouds
thunder, the wise would be well prepared before the rains plunder. - Unknown

When the interests of mankind are at stake,
they will obey with joy the man whom they believe to be wiser than themselves.
- Xenophon

When Reason died, then Wisdom was born. - Sri Aurobindo

When you say one
thing, the clever person understands three. - Chinese Proverb

When wisdom leaves the house folly enters it.
- Edward Counsel

Who consorts with the wise will
wise become. - Menander

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and
whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. - Hohann Caspar Lavater

Whosoever would be wise, and consequently
happy, must raze out of his mind all those false mistaken notions that have
been imprinting there from his infancy; and endeavour to expel that pernicious
infection of error, which it has been so long hatching from erroneous customs
and examples, and, which will prove fatal to it, if too long neglected. - Wellins Calcott

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by
travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
- Samuel Smiles

Wisdom cannot be bought with money
– it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength,
courage, knowing, and an ever increasing peace. - Rhonda Byme

Wisdom casts a more sparkling colour than the
ruby, it makes us shine as angels. - Thomas
Watson

Wisdom comes by disillusionment. -
George Santayana

Wisdom comes only through suffering. - Aeschylus

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still.
Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and
listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness
direct your words and actions. - Echart
Tolle

Wisdom
cometh by suffering. - Aeschylus

Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish
among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. - Niccolo Machiavelli

Wisdom consists
in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself
to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Wisdom consists of the
anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins

Wisdom does not show itself so
much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It
teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a
colour. - Seneca

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age.
- Abigail Van Buren

Wisdom grows in quiet places. - Austin O’Malley

Wisdom is a right understanding, a
faculty of discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen and what rejected; a
judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not the common opinion of
them. - Wellins Calcott

Wisdom is a safe ship; and we may trust
ourselves to it in all weathers. - Edward
Counsel

Wisdom is easy to
carry but difficult to gather. - Czech Proverb

Wisdom is
knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. - Orison Swett Marden

Wisdom is learning what to
overlook. - William James

Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience. - Edward Counsel

Wisdom
is not acquired save as the result of investigation. - Sankara Acharya

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which
a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish ... Knowledge can be
communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it,
but one cannot communicate and teach it. - Hermann
Hesse

Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning
with ability and disposition to use it. - E.
P. Day

Wisdom is not only realization of
the self, it is also the best way to demonstrate the love of humanity. - Tseng-Tzu

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

Wisdom is ofttimes
nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

Wisdom is supreme; therefore make
a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and
she will honour you. - Unknown

Wisdom is the never-failing granary of
thought. - Edward counsel

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us
from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to
bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the
ways which lead to tranquility and peace. - Cicero

Wisdom is the olive that springeth from a
heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. - Grymestone

Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance
of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.
- Charles Edward Jerningham

Wisdom is the
principal thing; therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting, get understanding.
- Unknown

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from
getting into situations where you need it. - Doug Larson

Wisdom is the reward you get for a
lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson

Wisdom
is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. But to know how to
use knowledge is to have wisdom. - Charles Haddon Spurgeo

Wisdom is to live
in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past. - Unknown

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they
have nothing left to learn. - Charles de
Lint

Wisdom stands at the turn in the
road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its
adherents. - Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom teaches us to live content upon a bone
gnawed bare. - Abraham Miller

Wisdom thoroughly learned, will never
be forgotten. - Pythagoras

Wisdom's door is ever open. - Edward Counsel

Wise are those who learn that the
bottom line does not always have to be their top priority. - Unknown

Wise
is the man who says what needs to be said, but not all that could be said. - Marvin
J. Ashton

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of
less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts,
by nature. - Cicero

Wise men know each other. - Edward Counsel

Wise men profit more from fools
than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but
fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. - Unknown

Wise men, though all laws were abolished,
would lead the same lives. - Aristophanes

Wise men, when in doubt whether to
speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain
silent. - Napoleon Hill

Wonder is the
beginning of wisdom. - Greek Proverb

You are a wise man today if you
have learnt from yesterday’s blunders. - Unknown

You may not be too wise, but if
you remain silent, you could fool a lot of people. - Unknown

You may not have very much sense. But
if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long
before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom. - Robert
Elliot Gonzales